Famous Quotes & Sayings

People often refer to bygone days as a simpler time. Perhaps, more accurately, my grandparents' generation focused better on what mattered. Traffic jams and minor quibbles with my husband Daniel pale in comparison with the worries that were faced on the home front and battlefield during the Second World War.

Warren Spector

The reality, for me at least, is that the finest recreation of a paper game, played on computer, pales in comparison with the actual, face-to-face experience.

This nation has been drifting back in comparison with the rest of the world for the last 20 years in education.

Yeah, I'd say there's no comparison in athleticism.

I don't think a comparison of the raw count of vulnerabilities is representative of the security of a product,

Gross margins were flat in spite of a fairly easy comparison because of pressure from Reward Zone.

Gerry Harvey

I think the main thing you measure your success by is what you do in comparison to your opposition. If you're in an industry where you're the leader, then you're performing very well.

Jack Straw

I think you ought to say so, otherwise your comparison is entirely worthless.

Lack is relative in comparison to what others posess. All things are not equal and never shall be on this planet

Francis Bacon

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that lost by not trying.

Thongchai Jaidee

The par-three fourth hole was the key for me today. I was putting good today in comparison to yesterday.

Bill Cowher

We only threw it 11 times. It's not like we've suddenly arrived, I don't think. Too much comparison has been made to (the preseason). I'm not concerned with that. I'm not ready to sit there and say everything is set with one game ... For the first time this year we looked like a professional team throwing the football.

People also like to look at the comparison just for fun.

Rod Marinelli

It is a similar position, and he's got traits like Derrick -- but Derrick has been to nine Pro Bowls, so that's where the comparison stops.

just as we did in the McCarthy era, we have offset the decline of traditional forms of repression with the development of new forms of repression. A historical comparison reveals not so much a repudiation as an evolution.

Brittany Howard

People hear a powerful female singer in a rock and roll band, and they say, 'Janis Joplin.' I think people just make that comparison because it's easy. But I don't think I sound like her at all.

I was very pleased with our fight and our performance. Especially in comparison to our previous game in Tennessee.

It has always been fairly easy to do comparison shopping on the Web,

People have been comparison shopping for 10,000 years,

Peter Riegert

A movie is a filmed rehearsal in a way. The audience doesn't know that because you're taking out the things that don't work. There's no comparison to the theater because it's live. But making a movie is just as challenging and exciting, I find. A movie is pure process. The theater is the result of process.

Well, first, the situation in Afghanistan is much better than it was. But there is no comparison between Afghanistan and Iraq. Iraq has a bureaucracy, Iraq has wealth. Iraq has an educated class of people who are positioned to come in and take over.

Vote with your feet, ... Do more comparison shopping. Know what the fees are. Read carefully, and if you don't see something you like, go elsewhere.

Pierre Schaeffer

Take a sound from whatever source, a note on a violin, a scream, a moan, a creaking door, and there is always this symmetry between the sound basis, which is complex and has numerous characteristics which emerge through a process of comparison within our perception.

While December was a difficult comparison for us and other manufacturers, by any measure it still was a solid sales month. We're particularly pleased with the recovery in our sport utility and full-size pickup business. It gives us renewed confidence as we prepare to launch new vehicles into these key segments in 2006.

Paul Cellucci

We have some significant differences on a number of specific issues. But our policy differences pale in comparison to overall scope of our cooperation,

We think such a discussion is overdue, in light of Sun's past five years of poor performance, and weak results in comparison to our peers.

Comparison would have been even better for some of those retailers if you would have had better weather in the Northeast.

Our efforts may look weak and limited in comparison with the government's strong and thunderous media campaign. Whether history proves the project to be a success or a failure, the fact remains that we were simply a group of journalists who took our profession very seriously. We tried to do what we felt was right at a time when we were needed.

People start out in January with great excitement and wonderful resolutions, and rush into joining a gym without doing a lot of comparison shopping or giving much thought to what it is they want from one.

Origin has struggled to outperform the sector in comparison to some of the other energy stocks.

Energy stocks are very volatile. We consider them to be the tech stocks of the energy industry. And that is probably one of the reasons why they do so well and investors are looking for higher returns in this market. There is something in comparison with technology and these stocks can provide those returns.

E. B. White

This equipment is newer and greater and does so much more. There's just no comparison in what we can do.

They're taking it very seriously. There's a comparison to the World Cup. They want to win a gold here - they haven't come all this way for nothing.